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Software Engineer Low Speed Motion Planning & Control Planning

Applied Intuition· Self-Driving Systems
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StuttgartFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Engineer focused on designing and implementing motion planning and controls capabilities for autonomous vehicle stacks, with opportunities to work on infrastructure- and vehicle-side enablement, ownership of technical and product decisions, and collaboration with users and customers in a fast-paced autonomy environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement motion planning and controls modules that can be deployed on various vehicle platforms, enabling them for highly accurate autonomous navigation in tight scenarios.
  • Characterize the dynamics of our customers’ vehicles to create tailored controls solutions and to reduce the gap between simulation and real-world dynamics.
  • Evaluate and utilize academic research to create optimal-control-based solutions using techniques like nonlinear MPC and MPPI control.

Qualifications

  • Passion about tackling challenging motion planning or motion control problems.
  • 3+ years of experience building production software using modern software practices.
  • Hands-on experience testing controls solutions on real, production-grade vehicles.
  • Fluency in control theory, numerical optimization, numerical analysis, and physics.
  • Enthusiasm for coming up with practical solutions to cutting-edge challenges in a fast-paced environment.
  • Experience writing high-performance C++ code.

Skills

Required:motion planningmotion controlC++control theory
Nice to have:optimization

Benefits

  • 30 days of paid vacation per year
  • Daily meal benefits: €19 lunch budget and €19 dinner budget, free breakfast, snacks, and drinks in the office
  • €965 annual learning & development budget
  • €580 annual fitness budget
  • Subsidized Wellpass membership for gyms and wellness facilities across Germany
  • €25 monthly contribution to Deutschlandticket for regional public transport
  • Generous parental leave: on top of statutory parental leave
Last updated Oct 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Applied Intuition

Building vehicle intelligence | Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition is the vehicle intelligence company with the tools, Vehicle OS, and autonomy stacks for creating safe, AI-powered vehicle experiences.

AIAutonomy stacksSelf-Driving SystemSimulationTesting & ValidationVehicle IntelligenceVehicle OSai-infrastructure-and-development
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